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...notion of "progressive pauperization." Under this theory, any substantial gain the workers get must be resisted as evil, because it makes them satisfied with their lot and puts off the proletarian revolution. At the CGT convention last June, this issue was thrashed out, and CGT Secretary General Benoit Frachon, a card-carrying Communist, spoke frankly of the need to "destroy the dreams and delusions of those who try to present the capitalist regime in its present state as a source of progress...
...aircraft to start what may be his final pilgrimage to Moscow. He said goodbyes to the bigwigs of French Communism: Jacques Duclos, looking like the tubby mayor of a little French town; Andre Marty, his fanatic face wearing an uncommonly benign look; hard-boiled Red Labor Chief Benoit Frachon in a green raincoat...
...C.G.T.'s Benoît Frachon tried a last-ditch expedient. He called on one-eyed President Vincent Auriol at Elysée Palace and asked him to send Schuman's strike bill back to the Assembly for a second reading. The President of the Republic has that right, but Auriol refused. Next day Frachon telephoned Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, just back from Moscow. Said Frachon to Thorez: "I cannot hold much longer. I warn you, the situation is getting out of control...
...State of Insurrection." Earlier the Cocos had been riding high. Comrade Benoit Frachon, kingpin of the C.G.T., had formed a National Central Strike Committee representing 20 striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with...
...Stranglehold. Communist Benoît Frachon, secretary-general of the C.G.T. (national labor federation), was up every night until 3 a.m., directing his army of 5,000,000 workers. Less than a third of this great mass is actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their...